CIP Update
September 30,
2005
This
newsletter is for cities, counties and communities involved in
public-private partnerships for joint emergency preparedness, planning
and prevention.
Michigan
State University produces the newsletter through the Critical
Incident Protocol (CIP)-Community Facilitation Program under a grant
awarded by the Office for Domestic Preparedness, U.S. Department of
Homeland Security. This
newsletter provides ideas, suggestions, best practices and lessons
learned to establish critical incident protocols using public-private
partnerships.
Please go to www.cip.msu.edu for more
information about the program.
Participating
Communities
Allentown,
PA / Annapolis, MD / Bethlehem,
PA / Brooklyn,
OH / Carroll County, MD / Casa Grande, AZ / Clark
County, NV /
Evansville,
IN / Hoover, AL / Marquette
County, MI / Milwaukee, WI / Monroe
County, MI / Northampton County, PA / Oakland County, MI / Redmond, WA
/ Racine, WI / Richmond Area, VA / Rockville, MD / Sandy City, UT
We are
currently working
with 19 communities and will work
with another 26 cities, counties or communities over the next couple of
years. Of the 26 available CIP
Programs, we are in contact
with 10 communities. Is there a
location in the nation that you think may be
interested in building a public-private partnership for joint emergency
preparedness? Please let us know.
Michigan
State University offers several ODP funded training courses, in addition to the CIP
Program.
One program
is the "Developing
an Intelligence Capacity" which is being offered in
22 locations around the nation. This two-day training provides
tools to state,
local and tribal law enforcement agencies to develop their intelligence
capability. The training includes identifying terrorist targets,
assessing threats, target hardening, monitoring individuals,
apprehension, and managing fear associated with terrorist threats and
attacks. For more information on this program, please go to http://intellprogram.msu.edu
Last week, I was
fortunate to sit in on MSU's "Leading
from the Front: WMD
Awareness for the Law Enforcement Executive" program offered in Scottsdale,
AZ. The Salt River Police Department sponsored the program and
was an excellent host. Federal,
state, local and tribal law enforcement professionals,
along with other criminal justice practitioners attended
this two-day training. The program contains the latest
information on WMD, along with information
on homeland security, planning, strategies, response and finishes
with a tabletop
exercise. To learn
about this highly rated training opportunity,
please go to
http://www.cj.msu.edu/%7Eoutreach/wmd/index.html
A
New Partner - Tribal
Agencies, Businesses and Non-Profits
As the CIP
program expands around the nation we continue to solicit certain entities in
many communities. Typically, when we first start talking
with a prospective
community we look for a strong commitment
from a variety of the public sector
agencies, along with many of the high profile businesses. Then we
begin looking at schools, hospitals, colleges,
utilities, security
organizations, Citizen Corp groups, emergency preparedness groups and "tribal" organizations,
if located in the community.
Being able
to spend a couple of days with the Salt River Police Department in
Scottsdale, AZ last week was a reminder of the excellence,
professionalism, and commitment that a
tribal agency can bring to a partnership. Located in the Metropolitan
Phoenix area, they serve over 100,000 people. Their officers have
tribal, federal, state and local authority. This law enforcement
agency has earned community, state and national recognition, and is
well known throughout Arizona and the southwest.
CIP
Community Happenings
Racine, WI - Please welcome the
city of Racine and Racine County to the
partnership program! Many of the governmental
leaders were in attendance, along with a strong showing from the SC
Johnson Corporation, All Saints
Healthcare, American Red Cross, Modine Manufacturing Company, Volunteer
Center of Racine, and visitors from College of Lake County, Illinois.
Bethlehem,
PA - On Sept 30th the staff
will be facilitating
an Orientation/Planning Session for the city of Bethlehem. What
makes this unique is that the
communities on either side of Bethlehem are CIP communities; Allentown
and Northampton County. Participants from all three communities
are discussing
working together in the future on region-wide projects. The
strength of partnerships is built by
cascading it throughout
a region.
Here are a
couple of public-private partnerships organizations in California that
could provide you with ideas, tasks and concepts. The “Business
Recovery Manager’s Association” (BRMA) at www.brma.com
is devoted
to the advancement of the theory and practice of business recovery,
disaster recovery, contingency and continuity planning, and emergency
response management. BRMA members work in both the private and
public sectors. Members are kept informed about the latest trends
and technologies, along with receiving educational and professional
development opportunities. BRMA is a forum in which to share
experiences, resolve common problems, and address common needs.
It has an extensive library, speaker’s bureau and brings in diversified
experts to share information with the members. Their website is
located at http://preparednesspartners.org
The city of
Milpitas, CA, along with the Chamber of Commerce have developed and
funded the “Business Partners for Emergency Preparedness” (BPEP)
group. BPEP’s mission is to increase
awareness about the need to prepare for an emergency before it happens;
provide the business community with well tested guidance on preparing
for a major emergency, and organize community businesses into a
self-sufficient team for responding to, and recovering from, any
emergency (BPEP, 2005). Their core curriculum covers Incident
Command System for Businesses, Assessing your Emergency Response Plan,
Disaster First Aid, Terrorists Threats and Other Acts of Violence,
Business Continuity and more. Their website is at http://preparednesspartners.org
The CIP staff has
developed a list of best practices and lessons learned that are taken
from the communities we work with, as well as other
sources. The attached document contains the best
practices/lessons learned. If you have an example that is not
mentioned – please share it with us! The more that we share
with you, and in turn, each community shares with other CIP groups, the
more effective the Protocol Partnership Groups.
Next
Steps by CIP Communities
When participants work
through the CIP Program, one task is developing a list of “next steps”,
which is at the end of the first workshop. During the
Orientation/Planning Session, participants work on enhancing the
public-private partnership, speak on joint emergency response issues,
discuss the Incident Command System, and work through a risk assessment
tool. These tasks are designed so that at the end of the day the
participants are ready to work together on deciding and identifying
what “next steps” the group wants to do? Recently, one of the new
communities came up with the following tasks:
1.
First and foremost - the
group clearly stated that they should meet again to jointly work on how
the partnership could benefit everyone
2.
To view the county
emergency management plan, especially for businesses to see how it
corresponds with their strategic planning
3.
There should be
information released to the media about the Protocol Partnership Group
4.
It was suggested that the
group or a smaller group of key people meet within 4 to 6 weeks to put
together an agenda, etc.
5.
Bring in the Chamber of
Commerce, Rotary Club and other key organizations that would have a
vested interest in the program
6.
Identify training and
seminars from public and private sectors related to joint emergency
preparedness
7.
Develop a list or
database of "resources" for human-caused and natural disasters
(critical incidents) that would be readily available to participants
8.
When mailing information
about the program to businesses, be sure to include CEO's
9.
Organize a meeting with
CEO's regarding the benefits of the program to their organizations
10.
Form subcommittees that
would be charged with specific tasks and report back to the general
membership
11.
Attendees were strongly
encouraged to review their own emergency response plans
12.
Public sector
organizations are encouraged to incorporate the private sector into
their annual disaster exercises
13.
Develop a centralized
database of all the coordinators in the county who manage volunteer
groups
14.
Develop a centralized
database of all the security managers in the county
On Sept 14, 2005, an
update was released to the public on the status of implementing the
recommendations from the 9/11 Commission. The report separates 14
recommendations into Emergency Preparedness and Response,
Transportation Security and Border Security. One of the many
areas that we address is noted in the report as “private sector
preparedness”. The 9/11 Commission report states, “we endorse the
American National Standards Institutes’ recommended standard for
private preparedness....” (9/11 Public Discourse Project, 2005, p.
4).
This refers to the
“NFPA1600 – Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business
Continuity Programs” publication, which can be downloaded from the “CIP
Information Exchange” members-only website.
This document is an
excellent resource for not only the private sector to use as a guide to
work from, but also for the public sector to share it with businesses
and non-profit organizations.
Recent
Postings to CIP
Information Exchange Website
To enter the "CIP Information Exchange" website, please go to
https://angel.msu.edu and enter your user/password
ID (or
use msu.msu@angel in the User/NetID and
"partnership" as the password to log in). Click on CIP and it
will take you to the main menu.
Located in
the folder "Bulletin Board - Information for all Communities" are just
a few of the following postings:
“Hospitals
are on Alert for Possible Terror Threats”
“The
Public-Private Interface: What’s Not in Place and What to do About It”
“Crisis
Management for Business Continuity”
“An On-line
Test of your Skills as an Emergency Manager Responding to a Volcano
Eruption”
There are
numerous other resources located on the website. To locate a
specific topic, use the "search" function, which can be found on the
main menu page on the right-hand side in the green task bar.
Starting
a CIP Program
Feel free
to make a referral to the MSU staff about possibly starting a CIP
Program elsewhere in the United States. We can use your
assistance!
Past Newsletters
If you are interested in
viewing past CIP Update
newsletters, please go to www.cip.msu.edu and select
“Newsletters” from the main menu.
Closing
If you have
any topics and/or ideas for a future
CIP Update
newsletter, please contact Brit Weber at weberbr@msu.edu or (517) 355-2227 or other MSU staff
members. About every three weeks you will receive this
newsletter via email. If you no longer want to be on this list,
please reply to this email.
9/11 Public
Discourse Project. (2005, Sept. 14) Report of the Status of 9/11 Commission
Recommendations. Retrieved from www.9-11pdp.org
on September 27, 2005.
Business
Partners in Emergency Preparedness. (2005). About PEP. Retrieved from http://preparednesspartners.org/about.asp
on
September 27, 2005.
Brit
Weber
School
of Criminal Justice
Michigan
State University
1407
S. Harrison Rd., 335 Nisbet Bldg.
East
Lansing, MI 48823
Work:
(517) 355-2227 Cell: (517) 206-1640
weberbr@msu.edu
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our website: http://www.cip.msu.edu